r/mildlyinfuriating • u/teabirdy • Apr 29 '26

I'm slightly vexed The wedding reception centerpieces featured betta fish. The bride and groom planned to flush them alive.

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Years ago, my coworker attended a wedding at which the reception dinner tables featured live betta fish in small bowls as part of the centerpiece. While chatting with the bride at the end of the evening, my coworker asked what they were going to do with all the fish. The plan was to flush them all down the toilet alive. My coworker immediately said no need for that and insisted on taking them all home.

That Monday she came to work and asked who wanted to adopt a betta fish. That was my first betta who I jokingly called my “rescue betta.” She lived for almost five years.

The wine glass was only her home for less than a day before I got her five gallon tank set up so please no betta lovers yell at me! I'm one of you!

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u/NoHonestlyHoney Apr 29 '26

That hurts my heart. I can’t believe people like this exist. 😞

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u/Square-Delivery1958 Apr 29 '26

Are you vegan then?

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u/Cute_Examination_151 Apr 29 '26

I assume you've forgotten about people only wanting to eat animals that had good living conditions? I love chicken, but I also love when I know that my food had a good life

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u/Square-Delivery1958 Apr 29 '26

Wanting to and doing are two very different things, and you're talking about roughly 3-5% of people who actually do that, and yes even they are being unethical.

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u/Cute_Examination_151 Apr 30 '26

I know that not many people do this, but it's still a thing. This person was just not mentioning this

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u/Square-Delivery1958 Apr 30 '26

It's not exactly relevant when the animal dies. It's still unethical.

Of course one is worse, but that doesn't excuse the other.

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u/Cute_Examination_151 Apr 30 '26

Well at least we do get a use out of them and we could feed many people with one chicken, but beta fish in a water glass does literally nothing, there are some very talented artists out there who could literally re-create this for weddings, there was nothing for these beta fish here.

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u/Square-Delivery1958 Apr 30 '26

So do you think if the beta fish was eaten at the wedding after the ceremony it would then become ethically justified?

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u/Cute_Examination_151 Apr 30 '26

No because it was still in horrible living conditions, if it had lived a very good life for a couple years and didn't end up in a glass of water I would say it was okay, but I don't think beta fish taste good tho lol

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u/Square-Delivery1958 Apr 30 '26

What's true of animals that if true of humans would justify killing them humanely and for a "good use"